Abdullah Qulliam is a British convert, who is known for his achievements of introducing islam to Great Britain. He built Britain’s First Mosque in 1891 and his achievement signified a starting point to the growth of Islam in the country. Many believe that he was the first native Englishman to embrace Islam. Today, there are nearly four million Muslims in Britain.
By: Anthony Bayyouk / Arab America Contributing Writer Introduction: Did you know about the amount of Arab-Americans in the production and film industry? The Middle East has a long history of entertainment from the Egyptian singer-songwriter umm Kulthum to the current Lebanese singer Fairuz. There has never been a dull moment in Middle East entertainment. … Continued
Arabic rules for naming newborns are different from many other naming practices used around the world. Arabic names are a string of names, most often following the father’s line and usually including the grandfather’s name and a descriptive name. Muslim and Christian Arabs often differ in how they name their children. We see how the naming practice has evolved in each of these societies as described by contributing writer John Mason.
BY: Sara Alsayed / Arab America Contributing Writer Have you ever seen a Muslim on a train or a bus whispering to themselves and moving their fingers or even holding what would appear to the people who do not know as a beaded necklace? Well, what you are probably seeing and hearing is a Muslim … Continued
By: Noura Abu Hamze / Arab America Contributing Writer Biography of Al Farabi Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Awzalagh Al-Farabi was born in approximately AH 257/ CE 870. He was born in a place called Farab or Farayb. In his youth he moved to Baghdad, Iraq. In 943 CE (AH 331) he went to Damascus, … Continued
By: Anthony Bayyouk / Arab America Contributing Writer The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world located in Northern Africa. The desert covers most of Northern Africa and is set to be larger than the United States and more. Believe It or Not, underneath the Sahara Desert dry sand is one of the … Continued
The Crusades were no doubt a series of events that altered world history as we know. To this day, the Crusades and their after-effects live on in the consciousness of Arabs, Europeans, and Americans alike. This is because the Crusades are largely remembered as an extremely brutal series of wars between “Christendom” and the “Islamic world”, which is alive in today’s political rhetoric. As right-wing pundits like to put it, today there is a “clash of civilizations” between the Christian West and the Arab Middle East, although this view is rooted in bigotry and ignorance. The first Crusade culminated in the siege of Jerusalem which saw the mass slaughter of the city’s Muslim and Jewish inhabitants at the hands of Frankish crusaders. This article will explore some of the political and cultural origins that led to this tremendously important event.
By Evan Ploeckelman / Arab America Contributing Writer Located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, about 200 kilometers away from Sharm El Sheikh, lies St. Catherine’s Monastery. Built by the Byzantines in the 500s, the site is significant to Christians, Muslims, and Jews as the supposed location of Moses’ encounter with the burning bush, as … Continued
Saliba Sarsar and Carole Monica C. Burnett, eds. What Jerusalem Means To Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflectionshttps://tinyurl.com/y38kckzj. N. Bethesda, MD: Holy Land Books/Noble Book Publishing Incorporated, 2021. By: Rita Mashni / Special to Arab America What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections is a publication of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF), … Continued
By: Qaïs S. Ahmadī / Arab America Contributing Writer White or Wrong? There was an alleged mass shooting at a Boulder, Colorado grocery store on March 22, 2021. This followed the Atlanta, Georgia spa shooting by a white man who had a “really bad day.” In the same token, social media quickly ruled that the Boulder suspect … Continued
By Evan Ploeckelman / Arab America Contributing Writer The Armenian Quarter is the quarter of Jerusalem that does not seem to fit alongside the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian quarters. However, it has been an integral part of Jerusalem for centuries, and still plays a role in the conflict between Palestine and Israel. History of Armenians … Continued
By: Arab America Contributing Writer / Christian Jimenez When people think of hockey players and the National Hockey League, they think of a sport with not much diversity. However, that can’t be further from the truth as there are hockey players of Arab descent with the one of the most prominent ones being that of … Continued
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